RECENT COMICS

It’s 2014 so what better way to start a new year than by looking back on the old. Rolph and Andu talk about the gifts they gave and received to kick our show off, before talking about the splendid Lew Stringer and some of his mighty works (Combat Colin, Brickman and Robo Capers and the almost-forgotten One Cat and his Cod). Now Christmas isn’t christmas anymore without a Doctor Who special. Now the last Doctor Who episode left our team as giddy as schoolgirls, can the Moff retain the quality at Christmas…

We take a wee break to plug the impending Scotcon gathering and mention the culinary delights of Scotcon – The Deep Fried Pizza and The Pizza Crunch.

Learn how one of the team was refused entry to see The Muppet’s Christmas Carol at the Cineworld in Edinburgh for being on his own and in possession of a beard and glasses. Take a guess gentle listener you have a fifty per-cent chance of being correct.

We end the show with a happier cinematic discussion, that of the team’s outing to see the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film.

So in the season of gifts we give you the Stardub Christmas special and it’s all about gifts. The greatest gift they’ll get this year is liiife sang the folks who donated their time to Band Aid, but here at the Stardub Nerve Centre the greatest gifts exchanged come in boxes with novelty wrapping paper or brown boxes with tabloid newspaper for padding. Now long-time listeners of the show should know by now that when gifts are exchanged one or both of our intrepid hosts suffers untold anguish and swears a lot, the other laughs.

Not this year, as in the spirit of togetherness both Andu and Rolph suffered torment, who unleashed said torment? What is said torment and how could it be so bad that Rolph proclaimed that Manimal was good in comparison…

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There is also a brief diversion into Christmas films, the title of the episode should clue you in on the two greatest Christmas films of all time.

Oh and enjoy yourselves this Christmas whatever you plan on doing and whoever you are doing it with and we’ll see you in 2014.

We’re back after a wee delay (I mean we took longer than expected, no bladder control issues in this podcast), and so is Paul McGann! That one seems to a bit more popular on the internet than we are, for some reason. Steven Moffat penned the exclusive minisode – The Night of the Doctor which featured the return of Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. Now this is the one nugget we wanted for the 50th Anniversary, so any wrongs Steven Moffat has committed, unintelligible arc plots, which fall down under examination, less episodes than we should have, the ever revolving door of producers (we miss you Beth Willis) are now forgiven. So we blether about that for a while, before turning to an equally important part of Doctor Who.

No not Doctor Who Adventures, but we get to that later I speak of course of The Deadly Assassin – starring Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor. Reknowned for redefining Gallifrey, Time Lords and for getting Philip Hinchliffe the boot thanks to Mary Whitehouse. This is a shame for it should be familiar for a greater reason, the single greatest Time Lord who wasn’t The Doctor – Castellan Spandrell as played by George Pravda.

Doctor Who Adventures reaches the milestone issue number 333 and Andu (after a few ciders picked it up) and we talk about it and also the charming Mr Men and Little Miss Magazine, both publications put out by the same publisher aimed at younger readers. Which one is better, no no they don’t need to fight. Just read the magazines or better yet let our hosts tell you. (Yes, there is swearing involved, and also some unfortunate choices of words).

SHOW NOTES

Astrodog – the wonderful comic by Paul Harrison-Davies that Andu was raving about.